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Uond memories of BRS? Far from r sending dedicated BRS spotters weak at the knees with nostalgia, your piece in Bird's Eye View is more likely to leave them spluttering with outrage (CM 9-15 Jan).
It's a pity you chose to feature such a bogus example. The BMC you enthuse over so lovingly has no connection whatsoever with BRS. Folk who fake "BRS" lorries up in this way do the preservation movement no favours. You simply cannot take any old lorry, slap a coat of Road Haulage Road on it and parade it around as a BRS motor. It amounts to rewriting history, which is misleading to current and future gener ations. About 20 or so lorries have no far been preserved in BRS colours, but no more than eight of those vehicles are correct. It is typical of ill-informed people in the media to feature the worse examples while those that are spot-on get ignored.
So that your readers can see what genuine BRS lorries looked like I am enclosing shots of two of the most accurately restored examples: Len and Bob Neild's Thornycroft and Dave Tarbuck's Bristol (one is shown below). Let's give a bit of credit to those who deserve it!
Peter J Davies,
Fldwirk, Beds